Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

[Tom Wijsman]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:06:11 +0300
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:

>
> On 09/07/14 07:24, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> >> [...] confusions with newer people...
> > Ironically; my first Portage tree action "add a directory" got a
> > "don't throw [expletive] into [games category]" reply, before
> > adding the ebuild.
> >
> > One really can't expect new people to start to address a team like
> > that prior to addition; I've assumed for some time that contacting
> > the teams is a necessity before addition of an ebuild, but that
> > quickly turned out to be false for most if not all other teams.
> >
>
> Well, I consider gnome-base/ to be [...]

True, but as rich0 has written a detailed reply about is that it
isn't about the categories; it's rather just that it becomes more
noticeable when it is committed to such, that doesn't imply that all
GNOME-ly packages in other categories are suddenly GNOME team reviewed.

There's like for example an "unofficial" MATE display manager floating
around, I think it's mdm in short; I wouldn't care if someone added it
to the Portage tree, as long as it isn't given an "official" appearance.
It's not like I'll be thoroughly reviewing it as a MATE maintainer...

Hence, given I assume my ebuilds are of sufficiently high quality and
therefore stable candidates, I rarely contact team leads; for those
that are of worse quality, I'll contact them soon enough as I'll
probably do need the help and/or review then due to lack of knowledge.

That makes me think that it becomes odd when such stable candidates
suddenly receive non maintainer commits or removals as I've read here.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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